Role of mechanics in vascular tissue engineering

Biorheology

Volumn 40, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 281-287

  Nerem, Robert M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY WALL; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THROMBOGENICITY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR TISSUE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; VISCOELASTICITY;

BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSELS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036978879     PISSN: 0006355X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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